25° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Signorina Effe

MISS EF

Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 100'


Emma, a young woman from a working class family originally from the south, has a bright future in front of her: graduated in mathematics, she already has a job in Fiat’s information technology sector and is about to marry Silvio, a managerial colleague. However, the recent wave of strikes and disputes to avert the sacking of fifteen thousand workers and the encounter with a young militant worker, Silvio, will lead her to question her future plans.

“I have always felt the need to draw the character of a woman in the round, to concentrate on the allure of a contradictory and authentic identity, to show the desire to experience passion without indecision and to face the consequences, all the way to the final defeat. Emma’s love ends when the workers lose, when their representatives sign the agreement; it ends with the end of the season of the workers’ political culture, of the most important movement in the history of the 20TH century. Two passions, one private, the other collective, consummated in thirty-five days.”

Biography

film director

Wilma Labate

Wilma Labate (Rome, Italy, 1949), after graduating in philosophy in 1979, started working with Rai, making several television programs, fictions and documentaries. After making documentaries in the 1980s about the industrial sector, she collaborated as assistant director for many Italian authors. She made her debut with the feature-length film Ambrogio (1992), followed by My Generation (1996), which won the public and the critic’s attention, as well as several acknowledgements. In 1997 she made Lavorare stanca for the series Alfabeto italiano, and in 2001 she filmed Sunday. In 2007 she presented Miss Ef at the Torino Film Festival in the section Panorama italiano. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Ambrogio (1992), La mia generazione (1996), Alfabeto italiano (ep. Lavorare stanca, tv, 1997), Gli ultimi della classe (aa.vv., 1998), Domenica (2001), Lettere dalla Palestina (coregia/codirectors Franco Angeli, Giuliana Berlinguer, Maurizio Carrassi, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Gianarelli, Francesco Maselli, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola, Fulvio Wetzl, doc., 2002), Maledettamia (mm, doc., 2003), Signorina Effe (2007), Qualcosa di noi (doc., 2014).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director Wilma Labate
soggetto/story Wilma Labate, Francesca Marciano, Carla Vangelista
sceneggiatura/screenplay Domenico Starnone, Wilma Labate, Carla Vangelista
fotografia/director of photography Fabio Zamarion
scenografia/set design Gianmaria Cau
costumi/costume design Nicoletta Taranta
montaggio/film editor Francesca Calvelli
suono/sound Alessandro Zanon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Filippo Timi (Sergio), Valeria Solarino (Emma), Sabrina Impacciatore (Magda), Fausto Paravidino (Antonio), Gaetano Bruno (Peppino), Giorgio Colangeli (Ciro), Fabrizio Gifuni (Silvio)
produttore/producer Donatella Botti
produzione/production Bianca Film, Rai Cinema
coproduzione/coproduction Ministero per i Beni e le attività culturali, Direzione generale per il cinema
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales 01 Distribution
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